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Dreamcast Games Coming To Current Gen Consoles?

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As I start to write this story I can barely believe it’s been 10 years since the launch of Sega’s last console, the Dreamcast. In a time before the PS2, Dreamcast looked a giant leap ahead of its rivals; the first PlayStation and the N64. The console delivered the last critically acclaimed home console Sonic games, the legendary Shenmue and arcade perfect ports of many of Sega’s arcade titles. Alas history teaches us the console failed to be the commercial hit the company had banked on and is the reason Sega went from being a hardware manufacturer to a software publisher and developer.

Ten years later and while Sega will be celebrating the console it’ll be quietly and internally. Head of Sega West; Mike Hayes explained recently to Kotaku:

“…because there are people in the company who were involved in the Dreamcast launch, there will be celebrations. But as a company, publicly, that’s going to be something we’re going to be pretty low key about for obvious reasons. We’re effectively a different company.”
“It’s not to disrespect the excellent system the Dreamcast was, or the innovations that were done on it, which I think were probably a few years ahead of time in terms of the online application. I just think we as a company are multi-format and we want to talk about our first-party platform partners rather than when we were a first-party.”

It makes sense really. Rather than lament on the past Sega have moved forwards and merely existing at all after the trouble they’ve had is an achievement to be proud of. Indeed Sega still have many fans loyal to the brand and the series of games they produce. Fans and others are happy to buy new content Sega have enjoyed much success releasing Genesis games on the PSN, Xbox Live Arcade and even in an Ultimate Collection including over 50 games on a single disk.

Retro content from anything after the Genesis has been a little rarer. Some former Dreamcast games have already been released such as Virtual On and Marvel vs Capcom 2 but there are many games in Sega’s Dreamcast back catalogue fans would clamour to play.
For you then Mike Hayes offers a small glimmer of hope;

“I can’t give you any details. Suffice to say, there’s a lot of technical issues, a lot of licensing issues. But we are very keen to bring [them] to players in the way we’ve done with Genesis games. We want to do it, but its hard work to get there. Hopefully we can build on that quite soon.”

So downloadable Dreamcast games for Xbox and PS3, would anyone be interested?

Post originally written by the author for TSSZ News.

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  1. Downloadable Jet Set Radio please. Also port the good version of Sonic 3D Blast already damn it.

  3. ABSOLUTELY INTRESTED!!! But if they do it, I hope they don’t change anything. Like they did with Sonic Adventure and Sonic adventure 2. I mean, SA2 battle and Sonic DX wasn’t bad, but they have some problem with framerate and so on. So no Directors cut delux thingy please. i would kill to have SA and SA2 with some other old awsome dreamcast games!

  4. No, I wouldn’t be interested. I’ve got two working dreamcasts that I can burn any game to on a standard disc. Why would I pay more money to play the same games? If they add online to each and every game, then maybe I’d buy a few just to play online. But I keep my dreamcast alive daily anyway, so it wouldn’t affect me personally. I would support it though, because I don’t want to see any of those games die. SA and SA2 on the 360 with online racing would indeed be the best thing sega could ever do.

  9. Sonic Adventure 1 & 2, Shenmue 1 & 2 (2 with the voices as used on the XBOX version) and Crazy Taxi 1 & 2 please!
    Not Sonic Shuffle though, it was dreadful.

  10. YES.
    Crazy Taxi, JSR, Chu Chu Rocket, Powerstone, Propeller Arena, Puyo titles, Seaman, Rent a Hero perhaps even PSO?
    I’m instantly in.
    Sonic Adventure 1/2?
    HOHYEAH.

  13. Hell yeah! Hey, if they get a green light from Ubisoft, I’d LOVE to play Rayman 2 again! I’ve been needing a good Rayman game to play that DOESN’T have those friggin rabbids!

  14. Evolution Worlds, Sonic Adventure 1 & 2, PSO 1 & 2, and Crazy Taxi were on the Gamecube already though (the last 3 were on X Box too). As aleady stated by someone, the PSP has Power Stone. Why don’t you guys list games we don’t ALREADY have? Lastly, I guess the fact that Wii’s VC has Megadrive, Game Gear, AND Genesis games doesn’t count for shit huh Tristin? Honestly, the Wii has it’s flaws but I love how you people ignore completely the things it does well.

  15. Oops, I mean Paul Street. I didn’t bother to look who posted the article before I posted that, but my ire still stands.

  18. WOOOW SO COOL DREAMCAST GAMES AGAIN!!! hehe that’s WAY PAST COOL!!!bro, I will buy it for shure! 😀 but I would prefer if they rather make SONIC’s NEXT BIG ADVENTURE, like Sonic Unleashed 2 or something I don’t care 😛
    But if they make those two, I would buy both 😛

  20. Sega should release an Ultimate Dreamcast Collection. With the insane amount of disc space these days, they could put together such a compilation. But I do know what they mean about legal complications and perhaps emulating stuff as well. That is very hard work indeed. But I hope they will keep trying anyway.

  21. Oh HAPPY DAY! SA1 ANd SA2 on my Xbox 360 with (hopefully) Next-Gen graphics and features. A good idea to think about would be downloadable add-on content that was never on the original dreamcast versions. I still boot that thing up nowadays just to play those games once more.

  22. Whoops! Forgot to mention Sonic Shuffle. Most didn’t like it, but I actually enjoyed it to be honest.

  23. I would love nothing more than playing Sonic Adventure 2 on my PSP and Triple.
    Hm… this would be good because if you notice sega doesnt work as hard now. could it be laziness? could it be that its not their own consoles? we may never know.

  24. Edge@: Actually, now that you mention it SA1 & 2 would be great on the PSP. I would have that over a XBLA or PS3 release.

  26. Shenmue 1 & 2 please…. more people need to be aware of this groundbreaking series…the storytelling here has not been surpassed by a single video game i have played or heard about, and the gameplay was fun and immersive. I still believe some day Shenmue 3 will be released….and hopefully releasing these games as a digital download will help them realize that Shenmue 3 must be released to end the fantastic story that started on the Dreamcast.

  28. I hope they have Sonic Adventure 1 and Sonic Adventure 2
    WITH TROPHIES for PS3 version!!!

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